{"id":1476045,"date":"2022-05-15T18:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476045"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:44:43","slug":"i-have-not-embellished-on-my-record-kathy-barnette-addresses-controversy-over-past-tweets-personal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-have-not-embellished-on-my-record-kathy-barnette-addresses-controversy-over-past-tweets-personal-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Have Not Embellished On My Record\u2019: Kathy Barnette Addresses Controversy Over Past Tweets, Personal History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-have-not-embellished-on-my-record-kathy-barnette-addresses-controversy-over-past-tweets-personal-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476045&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1397246597.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette addressed several recent controversies over her record on Sunday, as she continues to surge in the polls ahead of Tuesday\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with host Shannon Bream on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6306195864112#sp=show-clips\/all-shows\">Barnette<\/a> responded to criticisms about parts of her past that have come under fire in recent days, including questions about her military service record and insensitive tweets she had made in the past. She also blasted her primary opponents for raising controversy, claiming that they were \u201cmad\u201d because of her recent rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I want to give you a chance to answer some of these questions and your critics,\u201d Bream began the interview. She pointed to criticisms leveled by former President Donald Trump, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/news-npfzaeus9w2028\">said<\/a> Thursday that Barnette \u201cwill never be able to win the General Election\u201d and criticized her for having \u201cmany things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted.\u201d Barnette\u2019s primary opponent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=08d9sKVuQt4\">Dr. Mehmet Oz<\/a>, echoed those criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>Bream began with questions about Barnette\u2019s military record. \u201cYou have now released a couple of forms related to your service. Your website, your bio says you served for 10 years. Critics say those forms do not prove that out. Your response?\u201d Bream asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not true. Those forms do prove just that,\u201d Barnette responded. \u201cI have never \u2014 I have not embellished on my record, on my time in the military. And I\u2019m very grateful that I had the wonderful opportunity to serve our country.\u201d According to her website, Barnette served in the Army Reserve and National Guard from 1990 to 2000. Included on her website are photographs of her DD214 certificate of discharge from active duty, a record of service form, and her discharge documents from both the Army reserve and National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere were you an adjunct college professor?\u201d Bream asked next.<\/p>\n<p>Barnette answered, pointing to a module on her website which linked to a page that answers a number of outstanding questions. According to that page, titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/barnetteforsenate.com\/things-you-want-to-know\/\">Things You Want To Know<\/a>,\u201d Barnette was an adjunct professor at Judson University, a small Christian college in Elgin, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK. When did you move to Pennsylvania?\u201d Bream continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We\u2019ve] lived here for nine years, going into our 10th year,\u201d Barnette replied. \u201cI\u2019ve raised two of my babies here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bream then questioned her about several insensitive tweets. Bream quoted: \u201cyou said \u2018if you love freedom, Islam must not be allowed to thrive under any condition. You\u2019ve got tweets about former President Obama, one of them in 2016 says \u2018Obama is a Muslim doing Muslim-like things.\u2019 He has said that he is not, he is a practicing christian. So any context then for those particular tweets?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The context, Barnette explained, was that she made the tweets in the midst of several high-profile news events involving people from Muslim backgrounds. \u201cwe had the Obama administration bringing in a lot of Syrian refugees at that time \u2026We were looking at the Pulse nightclub shooting. We were watching people take vehicles, weaponize them, and run people down in the street. We were looking at the San Bernadino shooting. We were looking at some very unnerving things that as Americans we thought would never happen here.\u201d She also claimed that many of her tweets were not fully thought out. \u201cThe overwhelming majority of the tweets that are now being presented are not even full thoughts. They\u2019re not even full sentences. And yet, people take it and they begin to build their own narrative around it. So I can\u2019t provide a lot of context because, again, it\u2019s almost 10 years ago. That\u2019s how far they have to go back to try to find anything on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barnette closed the interview by blasting Oz and fellow challenger David McCormick, while touting her own accomplishment. \u201cWe had seven debates and Mehmet Oz and David McCormick only showed up to two,\u201d she said. \u201cWe had a number of forums and I can only recall them showing up to two. And then while they were attacking one another on television, I was out here with the people. We spent less than $2 million and they\u2019re mad. They\u2019re mad because I didn\u2019t ask for permission to be in this space. I just walked in because this is my country. And our country is in trouble. And I don\u2019t believe we have anymore room to elect warm bodies with an R next to their name and say hey, check, Republicans win. We don\u2019t win. It\u2019s not working out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette addressed several recent controversies over her record on Sunday, as she continues to surge in the polls ahead of Tuesday\u2019s primary.Speaking with host Shannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1483101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}